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smell-o-meter

noun

Etymology

From smell + -o-meter.

  1. inherited from smel
  2. derived from *smel-✻ — “to burn, smoke, smoulder; tar, pitch”
  3. inherited from *smallijan✻ — “to glow, burn, smoulder”
  4. inherited from *smyllan✻
  5. inherited from smellen
  6. suffixed as smell-o-meter — “smell + o-meter”

Definitions

  1. That which registers the magnitude of odor.

    • Perhaps the American Library Association should commission high tech wizards to develop a "smell-o-meter" which could standardize our judgments.
    • 1997 May 7, William Greene, misc.fitness.weights, Usenet Somebody needs to invent a "smell-o-meter" for gyms
    • In other words, the wolf scent that is old, though it registers on the deer’s “smell-o-meter,” causes a far different behavioral reaction than one that is fresh.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA